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31 March 2012

If you'll remember, FamilySearch was not very accurate with its information for Christine Funk/Lund and her husband Peter Jensen. Their marriage date of 1861 has been disproven and fixed to the correct 28 Apr 1865.

In the 1870 Danish Census I found the couple living in the Nylarsker parish with two children, Anine Margrete Jensen (age 3), and Laurits Peter Jensen (age 1).

FamilySearch had a Lauritz (Lewis, actually) listed as being born about 1861. In the census, however, he is 1 year old in 1870. So, the search began.

I started in 1860 just to be sure and checked all the Laurtis'. There were a few, but none where a good match except for this one -- (Note: It appears that the priest wrote the witnesses on the wrong line - you can see that the previous baby didn't have a name so he miss placed it and then marked it for entry 5 - I've highlighted the relevant entries.)

[Note from JensenJN: I looked up the reference and there is
no other information about Lautitz Peter Jensen than his christening. It is
only the entry of the witnesses where he placed them wrong. The other entries
are made in the proper line.]

Anmærkninger

Remarks.

Vacc. d 22/6 69

af Zahrtmann

vaccinated 22 June 1869

by Zahrtmann

Interesting:

Christine has a younger brother named Laurits (Lewis) Funch who would have been 14 years old at the time of her own son's birth.

Laurits Jensen was vaccinated by the same doctor as his father and mother.

30 March 2012

Since I already had Peter and Christine's marriage record from 1865 in Nylarsker parish I thought I might try to find them in the 1870 Census. I guessed they may have stayed in Nylarsker, but since I didn't know where Peter was from I wasn't sure. Instead of looking through the 49 pages of census records for the parish--which I would have been willing to do--I decided to use the online index first to see if they were even in that parish. Using the Dansk Demografisk Database I looked for "Peder Jensen" in "Bornholm" in the "1870" Census. I further restricted his age to "30-39." The first entry looked promising, so I selected "Show Household":

I had seen Christine's name listed as "Claudine Christine" in various online databases so I was okay with the name variation, particularly since her birth place matched what I had. So here we see two children born into the family.

Feeling good about this entry I decided to go ahead and pull up the original image:

Alder
Alderen anføres med det f y l d t e Aar, men for Børn, der ikke have fyldt 1
Aar, anføres ”Under 1 Aar”AgeThe age is to be listed with the filled
year, but for childrem who are not 1 full year are to be listed as “under 1
Year”
15) 30
16) 29
17) 3
18) 1

Fødested, nemlig Kiøbstadens eller Sognets og Amtets Navn,
og for de i Bilandene og kolonierne Fødte samt for Udlændinge Landet, hvor de
ere fødtePlace of Birth, namely the city’s or
the name of the parish and County and for those born in the colonies*) as well
as for foreigners the country, where they are born.
15) Nylars
16) Aaker
17) Nylars
18) do. Same

*) Bilandene and Colonierne are two words
for the same thing: Colonies

They are listed as "Lutheran" while I know that by this point Christine's family have all joined the LDS Church and are listed in the same census--in fact on the very next page--as "Mormon". I'll have to take another look at the Bornholm LDS Branch records and see if I can find any information about Christine or Peter's baptism.

If Peter and Christine were still Lutheran then their children would have been christened and should be found in the parish records. Both are listed as being born in Nylarsker.

Peter's occupation is "Fisher" and so is his father-in-law Didrich's. Do they work together?

I now know that Peter was born in the Nylarsker parish so I can search for his christening record. He would have been born about 1840.

Om Vielsen er forrettet
i Kirken eller Hjemmet, og i sidste Tilfælde Bevillings DatumIf the Wedding has been performed in the church or at home,
and in the latter casethe date of
authorization.i Kirkenin the church

Hvor anført i det
almindelige Jevnførelses RegisterWhere posted in the general Index15/1337/12

AnmærkningerRemarksLyst første gangd. 9d April 1865

Banns for the first time

The 9th April 1865

Note: On 9th April the pastor will
announce to the congregation that the two people will intend to marry

Interesting:

new.familysearch.org did not have the correct information for her marriage. The dates all said abt 1861. I believe this is because they also have a son, Lewis, listed as born in 1861. If studying the Funk/Lund's in Denmark have taught me anything it's that illegitimacy was not uncommon.

I have Christine's christening record from the Aaker parish. She is married in the Nylarsker parish, her family's home parish. She and Peder were both vaccinated (for smallpox) by the same physician on the same day. This leads me to believe that they were living in the same parish at the time. I believe that to be the Nylarsker parish. I will need to find a christening record for Peder Jensen (which will hopefully list his vaccination as well).

Along those same lines, I may be able to find a confirmation record for both Peder and Christine in the Nylarsker parish.

My next step will be to find them in the Danish Census and see if I can verify any children for them. Also, since there are children listed in FamilySearch I can start with those birth dates in mind when searching to see if I can verify them.

28 March 2012

Regular family history research has you go back in time to find your ancestors. By doing this, you find your direct line family -- grandparents, great grandparents, great-great, and so on.

Decendancy Research on the other hand has you choose an ancestor a few generations back and work your way forward in time to find all their descendants. I've decided that will be one of the things I work on ... in this case for the Lund line, starting with Didrich and Karen Funk/Lund.

Didrich Funch Lund

Karen Kathrina Christine Hansdatter Funch Lund

Here's one question I got from my husband Troy - Why?
I have many reasons but one of the biggest is that I want to find out if family documents/artifacts ended up with other lines of the family. Also, I'd like to see if there are others out there doing research on this same family so we can collaborate. I even suggested we hold a "Lund Family Reunion" next summer (2013) and invite all the living descendants we could find. (Case in point - Those photos I have of Didrich and Karen came from a completed Family Group Record Sheet from my father-in-law's aunt. Who has the originals?)

So, now I'm focusing on Didrich and Karen's oldest child - Christine Funk Lund and her family. I started by using new.familysearch.org to see what was already out there.

I then created a separate database for all this un-sourced information and called it "Reunion_Lund". As I find sources I can add facts to my "real" database.

27 March 2012

I've said this before, and I'll proably repeat it again in the future -- my side of the family is hard to research! Since I was born in Brazil, to Brazilian parents and Brazillian grandparents all our records are there, and Brazil is not the easiest place to do genealogy work. Not only do I struggle with the language (I can speak and read it mostly) but there just isn't as much available to me here at home (in Utah) as there would be for any other place in the US. I'm sure if I really took some time at the Family History Library I could do a lot, but I have two young boys and just don't have that kind of time...I'll just have to work slowly, but surely, I guess.

Anyway, all this is to say that I did find a record for my Maternal Grandparents' marriage in Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. So, I thought I'd use this document to show my process for adding documents and citations to my database (which happens to be RootsMagic5).

Citation
Whenever I post an image of a document to the blog I like to cite the source so y'all know where it came from and that it is legit. I just enter in the information I know about it. I try to do this right when I find the source if I'm at home, but if I'm at the Family History Center or Library I take extensive notes so I can add it when I get home. I normally use the "footnote" version of the citation on the blog because it includes a lot more information.

File Naming and Organization
I've talked about the organization of my file structure before, so I won't go into that here. But, I will mention that I recently decided to change how I named the files themselves. I followed Calvin Knight's file naming conventions for the most part and am slowly renaming my files. So this particular file got the name:
Lima_Joao_b1925_&Lindalva_19500930_MarriageRecord_01

Transcription / Translation
I like to transcribe most documents using Microsoft Word. This way I can easily add the text to my database program and to my blog...making it easier for people to search for the names, dates, places etc found in the document image. If the document is in a foreign language then I make sure to transcribe and translate it into English. I also copy and paste the source citation onto that document as well. So, for the above Marriage Record here's what I have:

On the thirtieth day of the month of September of nineteen hundred and fifty, in the Mother of the Rosary, as witnessed by Lacerda Ferreira and João Cabral Batista, the Reverand Frei Inocencio [ofm.?] performed the marriage rite of João de Sousa Lima and Lindalva Ferreira da Silva, the groom with 25 years of age, legitimate son of Manuel de Sousa Lima and Hosana Maria da Conceiçao, born and baptized in Cajazeiras, the bride with 17 years of age, legitimate daughter of Joaquim Pedro da Silva e Ernestina Ferreira da Silva, born and baptized in João Pessoa, residents in this parish. And, for the record, I had this [fermo] sign.(signed) Frei Jorge [Bolchaus.?] ofm. Vigário

I make sure to copy the transcription/translation into my RootsMagic "Detail Text" tab for this source and to add the image of the original document under the "Media" tab. (Hint: do this for the first citation you make for this document - in my case, for the marriage of Joao and Lindalva. Once I have added all the relevant transcriptions and media I can choose "Memorize" and add this exact citation to any other fact. If I want to add any comments specific to the fact, I'll go in and do that as well.)

Facts and More Facts
When adding information to my database found in the document I like to have the transcription/translation open next to my database so I can read it as I go, like in the image above. You could also print it out if you'd like. So for this particular document I was able to add this source citation to the following facts:

Marriage - Joao de Souza Lima & Lindalva Ferreira Da Silva - date and location, as well as adding the names of the witnesses (they may come up later).

Birth - Joao de Souza Lima - made a note that the marriage record gave the groom's age as 25 at the time of marriage which supports the birth date I have of 4 Jun 1925. It also lists the birth place.

Relationship to parents - Joao / Manuel and Hosana. I added a note to this citation that they are listed as Joao's parent's in his marriage record. Because this "relationship" source shows up for any of the children, I wanted to specify that it only proves they are Joao's parents...not necessarily true for any of the other children. (this is an item I've requested RootsMagic look into as I'd like a better way to distinguish the relationships I'm citing)

Birth - Lindalva Ferreira da Silva - I added a new birth fact because her marriage record states that she was 17 years old but the birth date I have from family recollection would mean she'd be 15 years old at the time of marriage. Either I have the wrong birth date or she lied on her marriage record (was there a certain age she needed to be?). Either way, I now have both facts listed in my database with their corresponding notes so as my research continues I know where these "facts" came from. (See yesterday's post about dealing with false information.)

Relationship to parents - Lindalva / Joaquim and Ernestina.

Depending on the document you may have more or fewer facts associated with it. By citing everything you can get out of a document you can decide how true a fact is.

26 March 2012

Our lives produce a lot of documents. This is helpful when researching our family history because we can use these documents to rebuild the facts of these people's lives. But what is really true?

A few weeks ago I discovered the Taylor Family Association website which includes an extensive family tree. As I was adding this data to my own database (I made sure to cite where it came from) I found a few errors.

If you'll remember, I really didn't have much information about the Taylor line so most of what I copied was new information. I did however already have some information for a John Ammon Taylor. Here's what was listed in the online database:

My own records showed his death date as 19 Feb 1921 and his burial date as 22 Feb 1921. So, I had to ask myself - Where did my information come from? Who was more correct, me or the online database?

The source for my data was John Ammon Taylor's own death certificate, which was made on the day of his death. I have no idea where the information on the online database came from, so guess what I did....

I still added the information to my database! Why? So I know that it's wrong! See how it's crossed out?

I use RootsMagic5 and I can enter multiple facts for the same event, in this case Death and Burial. I added the incorrect dates from the website database and cited that database as the source. I then changed the "Proof" field to "Proven False" so that it would cross out the event. I also added a note saying "No source for this INCORRECT DATE in the database. I believe the death certificate." Later, I went back and checked the "private" box so that I could choose if I wanted it to print on reports I may want to share with others.

This will be helpful for me in the future when I may run across information for a John Ammon Taylor stating his death date incorrectly. I can compare it to what I've already researched and know why I don't agree with that conclusion.

The birth year looked right and he is listed as being married to Hannah Mariah Harris, which matches the Hannah M. in the census. According to some user added information he was a veteran of the Mormon Battalion! Perhaps there will be pension records?

I was excited and related what I had learned to my husband Troy. I was excited about the idea of writing a book about the ancestors and descendants of Joseph Taylor. Then I found the Taylor Association website. All this research has already been done, and several books have already been written!

According to their records, this line goes back to a Joseph Taylor Sr. born about 1728. I decided to copy over the information in their database into mine, and in the process already found two errors. So, obviously, while the research has been done it all still needs to be verified. This will, however, make my job a lot easier. I made sure to label all the info I got from this database so I would know during my future research that these "facts" may or may not be true.

As I discover and verify more about the Taylor family, I will be sure to update the blog. For now, I feel that my quick investigation to answer Troy's question, "Who's that guy?" was successful.

24 March 2012

I had to wait a few days before I could head the local Family History Center to look up Ada Rose Taylor's 1880 US Census. So I thought I might search for a Joseph Taylor on FindAGrave.com, and narrowed the search to Utah. There were 60 matches! And remember, I didn't know his birth date or even death date. I tried to look through those that died before 1880, because I thought since he wasn't in the census with his family that he may have died already. But still, too many options. So I just had to wait.

23 March 2012

The other day I was showing my husband Troy what I was working on...starting to investigate the Taylor Family. He asked how many generations back I had for his various lines and I showed him. On his mother's side (which I haven't even begun to look at) he had up to 9 generations back! On his father's side, I told him that any of the names we had I had personally added to the database - no one had given me anything to work with. So, his Lund side which I have already researched extensively (although there is always more work to do) went back 6 generations. His Taylor line...not so much. So, looking at the pedigree he asked about one man in particular - "Who is Joseph Taylor?"

As you can see I didn't know Joseph's parents...he's was the end of the line. When I opened up his person window, here's all I had:

All I knew was that he was born in Kentucky. The only sources I had for that information was his daughter's death certificate, which gave me his name and birth place and the 1900 census which just listed her father's birth place as Kentucky. That's it! So the search began.

I was trying to show Troy right then how I go about researching people and thought I might try to find Joseph Taylor with his daughter Ada Rose in a census. I knew a lot more about Ada -

I figured since she was born in 1872 I would try to find her in a census as a child living with her parents. I already had her living with her husband in the 1900 census, the previous census 1890 was destroyed in a fire so I decided to search for her in the 1880 census. I did a quick FamilySearch search and here's what I got -

Now, FamilySearch didn't have the images online for this, so all I had was the index. Here, Ada is listed as 7 years old living with her mother Hannah, no Joseph Taylor as her father. Discussing this with my husband I reasoned - Perhaps Joseph Taylor had already died by now?!

My next step was to go to the local Family History Center and download the original image.

Note:Why not just search for Joseph in the 1870 census. Here was my reasoning - I know nothing about him except his name, that he was born in Kentucky (and I knew that only according to his daughter Ada's death certificate which her husband filled out, and a census that may or may not be accurate) I have no idea how old he is or where he would have been living in 1870. I believe his wife's name is Hannah, but how many Joseph Taylor's married to a Hannah might there be in the 1870 census? So I thought I better exhaust the 1880 census before moving on.

22 March 2012

A few months ago, on one of my trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake I discovered the Plain City Ward Records from 1859-1948 (US/CAN Film #26388), which included a record of members. Since the Lund's had settled there this was a goldmine!

Now that I'm turning my attention to the Taylor line, I'm starting at the end. Remember, in genealogy we start with the most recent information and work our way back. That means starting with the Victor Erastus Lund and Edith Pearl Taylor family.

I did find a great resource online, the Taylor Family Association which has done a lot of research on this line of Taylors. However, I already found a few errors when reviewing their database, which I already submitted to the moderator. Basically, this means that I will need to go through all the information I found there and verify it with some kind of source. At least it gives me a general direction to work in.

For now, let's take a look at these LDS Church Records for the Victor Lund family, from the late 1930's.

Mrs. Taylor Passes Away -- Mrs. Ada Rose Taylor, wife of William Taylor of Plain City and daughter of Joseph Taylor of Harrisville, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Her bebe died a few minutes after. Mrs. Taylor had many friends by whom she was held in high esteem. She was but thirty-seven years old and leaves a husband and seven children.

14 March 2012

My brother has been helping me with the Brazilian side of my family. He has some time where he can do the digging in the records online. So, I was taking a look at my Grandmother Deolinda's family to see what records I need him to find for me. In the process, I found her parents' marriage record online on Family Search. I had my dad help me with the translation and transcription.

On the sixteenth of December of nineteen hundred and
eleven, in this city of Rio de Janeiro, in the audience room of the 7th Civil
Court, where was found the Honorary judge in office, Dr. Flaminio Barbosa de
Resende, as well as myself as scribe, at noon, in front of the witnesses Manoel
de Amorim Junior and Alfredo Martins Noronha, received each other in matrimony,
with the legal formalities and by the regimen of community, José Ferreira and
Anna Thomé, originally from Portugal and residing at Rua de Nossa Senhora de
Copacabana number 30, he, twenty six years old, widower, workman, natural son
of Barbara Pinto; she, twenty four years old, legitimate daughter of Francisco
Thomé and Maria de Jesus; which in this act declare that are not related and
have no hindrance to this marriage, after which the judge declared them legally
wedded and asked to create this record which, being read and found correct,
signed, at the request of the newlyweds, being both illiterate, Conrado da
Silva and ------ Augusto de Campos. I,
sworn clerk, in the absence of ---------------------
Flaminio Barbosa de Rezende
Conrado Da Silva
---- Augusto de Campos
Manoel de Amorim Jr, 24 years old, retailer, Rua de Da.
Clara 186.
Alfredo Martins Noronha. 21 annos, security, Rua Alice
40.

Interesting:

According to my dad, Jose should be listed as 36 years old and not 26. He remembers always being told that he was 12 years older than Anna. Here's his explaination: It could be a misunderstanding due to their accent or they lied because they were also ashamed of the "scandalous difference". It makes sense because he had children from the first marriage and at 26, it's possible, but not normal for someone to father a few children and lose his wife and take some time for mourning before re-marrying.

Also, the name I have for Jose's mother is Barbara Rita not Barbara Pinto. Maybe that's why I've had such trouble moving back.

This record lists where they were living -
Rua de Nossa Senhora de Copacabana number 30 (literally Our Lady of Copacabana Street). So, a quick search on GoogleMaps gave me a visual of the location...just two blocks from the beach.

09 March 2012

The United States joined World War I on April 6, 1917. The Selective Service Act of 1917 required all males aged 21 to 30 to register for military service. Later the age range was expanded to include ages 18 to 45 and to ban volunteering. 4.8 million Americans served during World War I, and about 2.8 million of those were drafted. Approximately 24 million men registered for World War I.

Victor Erastus Lund took part in the first registration, on June 5, 1917 which was for all men ages of 21 to 31. The draft cards are two sided with the draftee filling out the front side and the official completing the back.

·Have you a father, mother, wife, child under 12,
or a sister or brother under 12, solely dependent on you for support (specify
which)? – wife – one child

·Married or single (which)? – married

·Race (specify which)? – Caucasian

·What military service have you had? – none

·Do you claim exemption from draft (specify
grounds)? ---

I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they
are true.

(signed) Victor Erastus Lund

Registrar’s
Report

A 43-1-34

·Tall, medium or short (specify which)? – Tall

·Slender, medium, or stout (which)? – Medium

·Color of eyes? – Dark Brown

·Color of hair? – Dark Brown

·Bald? ---

·Has person lost arm, leg, hand, feet, or both
eyes, or is he otherwise disabled (specify)? ---

I certify that my answers are ture, that the person
registered has read this own answeres, that I have witnesssed his signature,
and that all of his answers of which I have knowledge are true, except as
follows: _______.

(signed) ???Jackman

Precinct – Plain City

City or County – Weber

State – Utah

Date of registration – June 5

Interesting:

I found this card on Ancestry last year, before I had a photograph of Victor. I love that it lists his characteristics.

The triangle at the bottom of the front side says: "If person is of African descent, tear off this corner." Not sure why they wanted this information displayed prominently...they already asked for race on the card.

08 March 2012

In one of my Family History Library trips I found a book containing the cemetery records for the Plain City Cemetery. I copied the pages with Lund's and Taylor's then added them to my database. Under "LUND" there was an entry for Verla.

This young girl died at 11 years old! At the time I didn't continue my research, but since I've been looking at census records for Victor Lund's family I found Verla's name again. In the 1930 census she was 8 years old. How did she die? To find out I went to the Utah State Archives and found her death certificate.

Length
of residence in city or town where death occurred (yrs. mos. ds)

How long in U.S., if foreign birth?

Verla Lund

Plain City, Tuah

3 Sex

Female

4 Color or Race

White

5 Single, Married,
Widowed, or Divorced

If
Married, Widowed, or divorced, Husband of (or) wife of

Single

6 Date of Birth

January 20, 1922

7 Age

11 yrs. 2 mos. 9 ds.

8 Occupation

Student

9 Birthplace (City or
town)

Plain City

(State or Country)

Utah

10 Name of Father

Victor Erastus Lund

11 Birthplace of Father
(State or Country)

Plain City, Utah

12 Maiden Name of Mother

Pearl Taylor

13 Birthplace of Mother
(State or Country)

Plain City, Utah

14 Informant

Mrs. R. F. Cottle

Address

2975 Jackson Ave, Ogden

15 Filed / Registrar

Mar 30 1933 / N.
H. Savage

16 Date of Death

March 29, 1933

17 I hereby Certify, That I attended
deceased from Feb 28, 1933 to Mar 29, 1933 that I last saw her alive on Mar 29, 1933 and that death occurred, on the
date stated above, at 5 PM.

The
Cause of Death was as follows: Ruptured
appendicitis and peritonitis Duration:
31 ds.

18 Where was the disease
contracted if not at place of death?

Did an operation precede death?

Was there an autopsy?

What was the confirmed diagnosis?

(Signed), M.D.

Date/Address

Plain City, Utah

No

No

--

(signed)

3-30, 1933 / Ogden, Utah

19 Place of Burial,
Cremation or Removal

Date of Burial

Plain City, Utah

April 2, 1933

20 Undertaker

Address

Lindquist & Sons

Ogden, Utah

21 Registered No.

126

22 no of Burial or Removal
Permit

12

Cause of death is listed as "ruptured appendicitis and peritonitis". So for 31 days this young girl not only had endured the pain of a ruptured appendix but the subsequent infection that ultimately took her life. How overwhelmingly sad. The more I research family history the more grateful I am for the blessings of living in the modern world, and especially for modern medicine. This cause of death would be unheard of in the USA today.

I'm not sure who the informant, a Mrs. R.F. Cottle, is. The only Cottle in my database is a Laurence Nelson Cottle, who married Victor's aunt Lettie Rosella Lund. Could the R.F. refer to one of their son's meaning the informant was his wife, making her Victor's Cousin-in-law? Alternatively, perhaps one of Edith Pearl's sisters married a Cottle.

What is Lundology?

Why, its the study of the Lund's, of course! I am jumping in to researching our family history and seeing where it takes me. We are the Lund's. We come from Lund's, Ranson's, DeMacedo's, Lima's, Anderson's, Warner's, Ferreira's, Da Silva's and beyond! Since my own side of the family is from Brazil, it is quite difficult to track things down. Troy's side, on the other hand, has proven to be much easier. So, I'll be jumping back and forth and all around to learn about where we come from.

Are you related to us? I'd love to learn more about you and share what I know about our common ancestors!